Deirdre Fulton

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Shakespeare's colorful As You Like It in Monmouth, Bath, and Deering Oaks Park When three theater companies, all within a one-hour drive of Portland, choose to present the same Shakespeare play on overlapping dates, you have to wonder what about that particular show resonates with this particular moment.

Literary scene Former Mainer Shanna McNair started The New Guard, an independent, multi-genre literary review, in order to exalt the writer, no matter if that writer was well-established or just starting out.

Ten days of community love and events From the outset, O’Connor says, they were “foward-focused” — they had to be, given that they were basically starting from scratch — and committed to being as inclusive, positive, accessible, and transparent as possible.

Dissident Hero Formerly a reporter for the New York Times covering global terrorism (which is where he won the Pulitzer, in 2002), Hedges is best known for his anti-corporate stance, his criticism of US foreign policy, and his call to action.

Let's Get Minimal The Minimalists’ take on simplification is more about why than how, Millburn says, speaking from the passenger seat of the “tour bus” — a 12-year-old Toyota Corolla — that’s taking them on a 100-city tour that stops in Portland on Friday evening.

Carbon-spewing power plants must finally face the music
It’s why fossil fuel-fired plants have been allowed to belch millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the air, even as the public has come to blame this type of pollution for rising sea levels, increasingly crazy weather patterns, and worsening public health risks — because no one told them to stop.

Press Releases #YesAllWomen gives voice to the idea what while not all men are entitled perpetrators of patriarchal oppression, yes, all women have experienced some form of gender-based discrimination and/or sexual violence.

Maine Brew Bus launches new tours and service
It makes sense that the Maine Brew Bus, our favorite local designated driver founded by Zachary and Allison Poole, is expanding right along with the breweries it promotes on its all-inclusive beer tours.

Here comes the Brigade A new grassroots organization has risen out of the League of Young Voters’ ashes, aimed at producing what was the League’s best known and most invaluable resource, the Voter Guide.

Press Releases Frontline ’s new documentary “Solitary Nation,” which aired on April 22 and is available to watch for free online, sheds much needed light on a topic Portland Phoenix reporter Lance Tapley has been illuminating for eight years: isolated segregation within the Maine State Prison system.